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Note to those not liking this, there is an option in the preferences to revert to the old Vector skin. No idea how long this will be but setting that preference may give them feedback that some users prefer the old layout.

You can set a fixed width view in the preferences which might help a lot.

I'm the reverse of you in that I prefer content in the middle, as I sit in the middle of my screen and prefer to not have to be constantly looking to the left. I agree, personal choice would be nice.

That's pretty close. Apparently Toronto is much further away. "Toronto is a city in Canada located about 400 km (250 miles) from Toronto, the capital of Ontario."

I wonder though if there would have to be a balance, as you wouldn't want it to over-heat when charging during an Arizona summer.

I remember it well! Many many years of listening to a floppy drive grind looking for a disk or a bad sector.

We still host some dedicated servers at Rackspace and while the technical side has continued to be solid their phone support is awful now. I used to call in and have a specialist on the phone very quickly, now I get handed off to an obviously off-shore support person who I think is running a script before being escalated to a proper specialist... when available. We've been with them for almost 20 years but I think in the next couple that's going to change.

Canadian classified site, Kijiji. I missed another a couple months back so set a watch for any more ads to pop up and got lucky today.

Oddly enough I just bought a used Blackview BV9800 Pro phone today purely for the FLIR camera in it. At $140 CAD it was much much cheaper than any of the off the shelf new FLIR options.

Very nice! This brings back memories. In the 90's sometime I found a GIF of a huge maze and I wanted to find the solution. Young coder me decided to write a program in VB to find the solution. Just went and grabbed a screen shot of it here: https://i.imgur.com/gRz5b01.png I can't remember how long it took it to solve it back then but it solves it now on modern hardware in about 3 seconds. Likely much better ways to do it now, I know nothing about path finding theory. This was just a simple recursive search.

I need to do more of these fun side projects like this just for the pure joy of it.

My Time model has a compass and I use it quite a bit. There are several compass apps in the store.

I am one of those and every year I renew my Rebble subscription to keep my devices viable as long as possible. I currently have 4 of them, including 2 still "new in box". I still haven't found anything else that suits my use case as well. Still makes me sad though that the Time 2 model didn't release as it would have fixed the few (!) complaints I had about my Time.

Yes, mission profile required it to use all of its fuel to reach the target.

I think one of those is currently being turned into the Wide-Field Infrared Survey Telescope, though I haven't heard about progress in awhile.

I do love his videos though I find them a little rapid fire and after awhile I loose track of what is what. His testing methodlogy is pretty thorough and practical but wish he could change the presentation format a little. That said it is such a firehose of details that I don't have any suggestions on how he would do that. I just find it overwhelming to keep track of each product through the test cycles. Maybe it just needs a better summary at the end.

You may enjoy this article out recently: https://arstechnica.com/cars/2022/08/yes-touchscreens-really...

Thanks!

I may hunt down a pair of these, thanks!

Or carry a dongle, or carry... that's the problem. So now your "we made it thinner" phone makes you carry and keep track of several more items to solve a problem that shouldn't exist. Instead of having to carry an entire tech portfolio everywhere, how about the ability to plug in a set of headphones most airlines / gas stations charge $5 for?

Give me a headphone jack, give me a "small phone" (6a is my absolute size limit... I carry a Pixel 5 now purposely because of its size... I'd gladly go smaller), give me raw Android, decent photo abilities, and an all day battery (actually using the phone). I've even given up on caring about SD cards because of 128gb phones being available but it would be nice... as would a replacable battery. I don't care about rounded corners, super thin, super light, top/bottom bezels, hidden fingerprint sensors, etc etc etc.

To the headphone jack argument... started flying for work again this year and had my BT headphones go dead halfway through a flight. Options..? Stare out the window. I will continue to be a strong advocate for that missing item.

I have found all forms of mechanical calculators fascinating for years and have a few of these collected back in the days when they were cheap to find. Now most of them run a couple grand. They are wonderful little devices to play with. There are still a couple people in the US that will service them (it's a very tricky mechanism to reassemble).

There is another thread on the iPhone SE where a lot of people are commenting on how they miss compact phones. I suspect that is why this was submitted / upvoted. I'm glad it was, didn't know this device existed.

Just FYI, you didn't have use the $ to denote string variables from VB2 upwards. It had been a QBasic thing, pretty sure it ended up in VB1, and then was dropped. (though you could still optionally use it) Option Explicit... first line that should have been in every VB program.

I had an entire career built on developing back end tooling in VB for businesses, some of which (.. 25 years later?) are still doing their jobs. It was sometimes painful but it really did set a bar for quick productivity. Fond memories of those days!

I'm curious why you say "After the Pixel 5". Isn't that still pretty current specs wise? I love mine. I too would like to know where I'm moving next, but I'm also quite content with its specs for likely awhile yet.

Google Rebble, they have full guides and software updates to keep your devices going. It's not a huge community but it's pretty dedicated.

I'm still sad about the Gen 2 Pebble Time not being released. It solved the (few!) issues I have with the V1 Time. And I use the word have - present tense - purposely because I still wear my Time daily and have 3 in reserve in case it dies. The Rebble project and battery replacements have kept these devices relevant and for what I want out of a smart watch I still haven't found a better device.

Well then since JPEG stands for Joint Photographic Experts Group, does one pronounce it JFEG?

From the man himself:

  There has been a huge debate about the real pronunciation of GIF over the years and many users have continued to offer their own arguments.

  But in 2013, Steve settled the debate once and for all during his acceptance speech of his lifetime achievement Webby Award, revealing that GIF is pronounced with a soft “g”.

  “It’s pronounced JIF, not GIF,” the beloved creator revealed to the crowd.

Windows 7 for me but yes, similar sentiment.

So, interesting thing, how when I visit this site for the first time (in Firefox) is the search box showing a drop down with a bunch of my previous searches? I can't tell where they are from but it is all stuff I have searched for in the past. I thought it might be the browser populating a list but that should be based on same domain. So where is it pulling this from? Some of the searche terms are months, perhaps more than a year old.